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CITES II
Emydidae

Spotted Turtle

Clemmys guttata

Traceable. The figures above appear in the page we cite, which we opened on 10 Aug 2026. That means you can check them, not that we have confirmed they are right. reptifiles.com

Photograph: Robbie · CC BY

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

CITES II is a global listing and holds in every country. National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.

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https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/clemmys-guttata

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warm end30–32 °C
cool end21–29 °C
Enclosure90×45×30
Diet1 days

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
21–29°Cool side
30–32°Warm side

A real gradient, 30–32°C warm against 21–29°C cool, so the animal chooses. The sheet states no separate night figure.

Why

Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet stateswarm 30-32 °C / cool 21-29 °C

UVB

T5 6%required

The sheet states22" Arcadia T5 HO 6% or Zoo Med T5 HO ReptiSun 5.0

Identity

Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Enclosure

30–32 °CUVB tube90 cm30 cm
warm sideUVB tube
50100150200 cm
90 × 45 × 30 cmWidth × depth × height
41dm² of floor
Substrate: not in our dataWater: not in our dataHides: not in our data

Drawn from the stated numbers. Only what the sheet states is drawn inside.

Why

The rectangle carries the exact width-to-height ratio of the figures above it, and the ruler under it places that width on the 0–250 cm scale every sheet here shares, so two species still compare at a glance. Nothing is added that the sheet does not name: a lamp drawn on a sheet that never mentions one would be invented equipment. What the sheet leaves out is listed rather than left blank, because an empty tank reads as « none needed ».

The sheet states36″L x 18″W x 12″H (90 x 45 x 30cm) or larger

Temperature
warm 30–32 °C / cool 21–29 °C

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

Diet

Feeding rhythm

every 1 dAs the sheet states
28Meals in 28 days

Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window.

Why

The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.

The sheet statesprotein food or pellets daily (<6 months), every other day (6-12 months), 2-3x/week (>1 year); vegetable food daily; protein foods: crickets, locusts, earthworms, discoid roaches, dubia roaches, freeze-dried shrimp/krill, frozen bloodworms, hornworms, silkworms, snails, mice

Common questions

Why is it expensive?

It is a small, slow-breeding, CITES-listed turtle, and legal captive-bred stock is scarce.

How big does it get?

Small, about 9 to 12 cm, so a modest setup is enough.

Does it like warm water?

It comes from cool marshes and does poorly in constantly warm water, so an air-conditioned room or a water chiller is realistic here.

What does it eat?

Mainly small animal food such as worms, snails, insects and small fish, plus pellets and a little plant matter.

What it needs

Enclosure at least 90 × 45 × 30 cmbecause enclosure — 36″L x 18″W x 12″H (90 x 45 x 30cm) or larger
A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 30-32 °C / cool 21-29 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 30-32 °C / cool 21-29 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 30-32 °C / cool 21-29 °C
UVB 6-6% (T5), stated as requiredbecause uvb — 22" Arcadia T5 HO 6% or Zoo Med T5 HO ReptiSun 5.0

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation.

Sources

reptifiles.com — lu le 2026-08-04speciesplus.net — lu le 2026-08-08reptile-database.reptarium.cz — lu le 2026-08-08

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What this sheet states

62%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: humidity instrument and audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.